#namely

We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us. ↗

— Saint Teresa of Avila

#fulfill #god #know #learn #namely

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#commonly #her #invisible #namely #patron

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself. ↗

— Anna Freud

#like #namely #oneself #only #right

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. ↗

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

#form #imitation #namely #opposite #something

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. ↗

— Karl Marx

#ending #good #greek #meet #met

My job was to teach the whole corpus of economic theory, but there were two subjects in which I was especially interested, namely, the economics of mass unemployment and international economics. ↗

— James Meade

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We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#confirmed #cruel #destructive #forces #grandiose

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#agencies #been #birth #conservatives #endowed

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing. ↗

— John Searle

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I mention this fact as tending to support what I have often heard stated, namely, that a shark's sense of smell is so keen that, if men ever bathe in seas where they are found, a shark is almost sure to appear directly afterwards. ↗

— George Grey

#almost #appear #bathe #directly #ever